UNCASVILLE, Conn. – Taj McWilliams-Franklin got off a plane in Connecticut 21 years ago, and immediately noticed one thing. It was cold.
She wasn’t in Orlando any longer, and nor was her team. The Orlando Miracle were moving to a casino to become the Connecticut Sun.
“My daughter was born in January 2003, so I was the last one to find out,” she said. “There was no Instagram or anything like that so somebody literally had to call me and say the team was moving to Mohegan Sun in Connecticut. ‘I don’t know what that is.’ There was a sadness because the team we started with was gone, but hopefulness that a long-term solution was going to be something of strength.
